C & Data Structures (Electrical and Computer Engineering Series) (Paperback)

by P S Deshpande (Author), O G Kakde (Author)

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Product Description
Divided into three separate sections, C & Data Structures covers C programming, as well as the implementation of data structures and an analysis of advanced data structure problems. Beginning with the basic concepts of the C language (including the operators, control structures, and functions), the book progresses to show these concepts through practical application with data structures such as linked lists and trees, and concludes with the integration of C programs and advanced data structure problem-solving. The book covers a vast range of data structures and programming issues, such as syntactic and semantic aspects of C, all control statements in C, concepts of function, macro, files and pointers with examples, graphs, arrays, searching and sorting techniques, stacks and queues, files, and preprocessing. C & Data Structures provides a comprehensive guide to all the data types in C with internal implementation, while providing examples to demonstrate their be! havior.

KEY FEATURES * Explains all operators, expressions, control statements, and rules of C in detail * Demonstrates language syntax, as well as discussing its behavior by showing specific internal implementations * Covers data structures such as linked lists, trees, graphs, arrays, and commonly used algorithms, as well as advanced data structures such as B- trees and B+ trees * Includes a CD-ROM with all the source codes appearing in the book

About the Author
P.S. Deshpande is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Visvesvarya National Institute of Technology. He has acted as a consultant to various government and private organizations in the field of database management, software engineering, data warehousing, WAP, and J2EE design patterns, and has published a number of papers on Oracle, data warehousing, and programming languages. O.G. Kakde is also a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Visvesvarya National Institute of Technology. He has done consulting work for the government as well as private organizations in the fields of embedded systems, language translators, WAP, and several programming languages. He is the author of Algorithms for Compiler Design.

Product Details

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Charles River Media; 1 edition (January 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584503386
• ISBN-13: 978-1584503385
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #880,505 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This item is part of The Charles River Media Computer Engineering Series.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A book that should never have been published (should rate as minus 5 stars), October 25, 2005

By	Francis W. Glassborow - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am profoundly disturbed by the poor quality of this book. Here is an example to show why I feel that way. The example was chosen almost at random but even I was shocked when I came to type it in. I would not accept such code from a first year student.
On page 139 the author provides the following code (I have taken great care to copy the code exactly as it is in the book):
Struct address \\ A
{
plot char [30], struc char[30];
city char[30]
}
struct student \\ B
{
name char[30];
marks float;
struct address adr;
}
main ( )
{
struct student student1; \\D
struct student class[20]; \\E
class[1].marks = 70; // F
I have stopped at this point as it continues with a hard coded initialisation of class[1] followed by five printf() statements to output the contents of class[1] to stdout. Nowhere do the authors expalin why they want an array, why they ignore the first element of the array and why the bothered with defining student1. In addition the use of 'class' as a name introduces a gratuitous incompatibility with C++.
There then follows a section explaining the code. The first item is:
1. Statement A declares the address of a structure containing the members plot, street and city.
That code is so bad that I can think of no explanation for how a book on C could be distributed with such code in it.
I am disturbed by the number of positive reviews this book has had from readers because no one who actually tried the code provided by the authors could have got it working and the explanations are often bizarre.
Were it possible I would give this book minus 5 stars because learning from it would seriously impede a reader's development as a programmer.
There are numerous better books on both Data Structures and C. Indeed almost any book on either subject would be better.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Numerous Errors, May 25, 2004

By	Chris Brown (Boston) - See all my reviews

I would have to disagree with the other reviews of this text. I found this book full of gramatical errors, typos, and errors in the source code. The concepts presented in the text are exelent and the authors do a fine job of presenting these ideas. It is unfortunate that the editing was not better and that some of the source code seemingly was not compiled and tested prior to being included in the book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Full of errors and novice style of programming, January 16, 2005

By	Mk "jgd" (Sunnyvale, CA) - See all my reviews

Stay away unless you are desperate to lay hands on any data structures book. It has so many errors. Poor editing can confuse you. The code is written in often very beginner's style while no thought is given to Whys and Why Nots of an approach. Definitely not a good reference. Use and throw perhaps.

The program outputs are needlessly printed without any sensible explaination for most of them.